Neighbourliness today

[Mrs Steve R]

A Christian ideal is to love one's neighbour as oneself but it's been said "The average Londoner knows just one neighbour. I travel a lot, and I'm always surprised by the strong sense of community in some countries. We've lost something fundamentally human, and we don't even realise it".

What set me thinking about this is that recently two close neighbours (in a road where we've lived for decades) have died, including a gent I often chatted with, and I knew nothing about it.

On the other hand folk often equate neighbourliness with nosiness and might think it's better to keep oneself to oneself.

Are we losing a sense of neighbourliness in Cardiff - and, if so, is this a good thing.

Some of us realise and have been going on about this sort of thing for ages, definitely not a good thing.

Shame about your neighbours, at least you used to talk to them though.

Aren't they called burglars JR?